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...Sweringen brothers conferred with stockholders of the Pere Marquette last week, immediately after their conference with the stockholders of the Erie. Next they will confer with those of the Hocking Valley and of the Chesapeake & Ohio. They seek to mollify minority stockholders who dissented so strenuously last spring from permitting their roads to join with the Van Sweringens' Nickel Plate Railroad into a billion-dollar Nickel Plate System...
Then the President sent to the Senate the name of Thomas F. Woodlock. "He lives in New York," cried Senators from the South. The President could not deny it. "He is a financier, a director of the Pere Marquette Railroad and the St. Louis-San Francisco. He writes for the Wall Street Journal, and even edited it once," cried Western radicals. The President did not deny this. He even let it be known that Mr. Woodlock owed his appointment to his experience as a financier. The biggest problem now before the I. C. C. is railroad consolidation, of which...
...Apache underworld of Paris. Mr. John W. Ransome as Boul, short for boulevard, nearly lost himself in enthusiasm for his part and shouted his way to fame. As a lightfingered taxi man he harbors much too warm a heart, and the humor for a really humorous part. As Pere Chevillan, a jovial kill or cure purveyor of religion who has laughed with, as well as at the world for so long that the donkey joke won't focus, Mr. W. H. Post also gives a splendid performance...
...decision was the product of many months and some half a million dollars' worth of hearings, not to mention several weeks deliberation on the part of the Commission. The proposal was for a merger of the Nickel Plate (New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Co.) with the Pere Marquette, Erie, Chesapeake & Ohio, and Hocking Valley railroads into a great system with some 9,500 miles of track, connecting New York City and Newport News on the Atlantic coast with Chicago and St. Louis in the interior. It would be a fourth great Eastern railway system rivaling the New York Central...
Fitzgerald in the schoolboys net is a member of a famous goal-tending family, best-known of which is Joseph Fitzgerald, former Boston College captain and now Pere Marquette net guardian. The Cambridge goalie is experienced and reliable, and the fast Freshman forwards will have to break through the outer defense often if they hope to score many goals...